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Fast Forward Amazon, Wal-Mart Were Selling Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Apparently Marketed To Neo-Nazis
Several multi-national booksellers, including Amazon, Wal-Mart and Barnes and Nobles, were selling a copy of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” with a product description apparently marketed directly to neo-Nazis, HuffPost reported. The version of this book — in a translation the product description erroneously calls the “official” translation of the Nazi regime — is on…
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Fast Forward Teacher Praised Hitler In Yearbook; Superintendent Says It Was ‘Out Of Context’
(JTA) — A school district in New York has recalled its yearbook after a new teacher appeared to call Adolf Hitler his favorite person in history in a yearbook interview. The student body of Whiteville Central School District in Allegheny County is 98.9 percent white, the Olean Times Herald reported. Asked who his favorite person in history…
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Opinion Take It From A Civil Liberties Professor – Trump And Hitler Have A Lot In Common
I hate to put Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler in the same sentence. It trivializes Hitler’s obscene crimes to compare them with Trump’s often pathetic foibles. And it understates our nation’s historic commitment to constitutional democracy to suggest a serious parallel between the twenty first century United States and 1930’s Weimar Germany. But I can’t…
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Fast Forward Politician From Hitler’s Hometown Resigns Over Poem Comparing Migrants To Rats
The deputy mayor of the Austrian town where Adolf Hitler was born has resigned after writing a poem comparing migrants to rats, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Christian Schilcher, the deputy mayor of Braunau am Inn and a member of the far-right Freedom Party, published a piece entitled “The City Rat (Rodent with Sewerage Background)”…
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Culture When Americans Thought Hitler Had Been Killed — In 1939
On April 1, 1939, Hitler was in a very bad mood. The previous day the Führer had learned that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had grown something resembling a spine. After reversing Britain’s policy of appeasement on March 15, following Hitler’s seizure of Czechoslovakia, on March 31 Chamberlain made a pledge of Anglo-French support to…
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Fast Forward Members Of Los Angeles Youth Hockey Team Suspended Over Hitler Salute
(JTA) — Three coaches and 15 players from a youth hockey team in Los Angeles have been suspended over a video posted on social media showing a player making a Nazi salute as other players make anti-Semitic remarks. The Los Angeles Jr. Kings announced the suspensions of coaches and players from the 14U Bantam AAA…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s Mein Kampf Read On House Floor By Republican Congressman
Representative Mo Brooks, a Republican from Alabama, brought Adolf Hitler’s own words to the floor of the U.S. Congress on Monday, quoting at length from Hitler’s autobiography, “Mein Kampf.” In a speech in which he said that “socialists and the fake news media” should “cleanse their souls and atone for their sins” for endorsing the…
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Fast Forward ‘Heil Hitler’: 30 Gravestones Vandalized At Jewish Cemetery In Massachusetts
(JTA) — Swastikas and anti-Semitic epithets were drawn on at least 30 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in southern Massachusetts. The vandalism at the Hebrew Cemetery in Fall River, Massachusetts, occurred over the weekend, police told local media. Among the graffiti written in black marker were “Heil Hitler,” “Hitler was right,” and “Oy vey, this…
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